I have let my little kids do smelly markers! (Mr. Sketch)
They lots of times repeat the lesson but with the good
smelling markers. Kind of a reward... Don't think I would
sweat the fast workers too much that young, but I would make
sure they did the different goals for the lesson. Give them
specific ideas of what to add to make it complete (not
better).

On 10/31/09, Ms.TeacherCreature wrote:
> What do you do with your early finishers for K-2? I have
> lots of centers and things for my 3-5s, but the
> independence level of my K-2s is so different...
>
> I usually have them complete another painting/drawing/etc.
> in whatever medium we are working in, yet they rush and are
> continually saying "I'm done." What do you do with these
> little ones?
>
> Also, I hear a lot of people say that all of there students
> finish about the same time...tell me how this works for
> you? I do a series of lessons/projects to tie in different
> mediums etc. So our project may go for 3-4 weeks sometimes.
> I find 1/4 of my kids are truly finished during that second
> week with excellent results, some finish about on time and
> 1/4 still aren't finished at the end of the project,
> despite my daily objectives (i.e. you should be here by the
> time we clean up today). Any thoughts on closing in on
> that?

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